#1282: Enable HDF5 compression by default in Carpet --------------------------+------------------------------------------------- Reporter: hinder | Owner: eschnett Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: Component: Carpet | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: --------------------------+-------------------------------------------------
Comment (by eschnett):
Yes, it should be enabled by default.
When we ran benchmarks, we found that a compression level of 1 produced almost the same file sizes as a level of 9.
Other features (e.g. checksums?) could also be enabled by default.